CODEWITHSUNDEEP
node.jsmongodbexpress
Victor
Victor

Reputation: 57

Passing a Mongo ObjectId in a URL and querying that ID with Node/Express

I'm having a lot of trouble passing in an objectId as my URL parameter. I know that the ObjectId in MongoDB is a hex value, and that I need to do some conversions, but I'm getting errors with every method I use to do this.

Currently, the error that I'm getting states, "Argument passed in must be a single String of 12 bytes or a string of 24 hex characters."

var mongo   = require('mongodb').MongoClient;
var ObjectID = require('mongodb').ObjectID;


 app.get('/characters/:id', function (req, res) {
   console.log(req.params.id);
   var collection = db.collection('Character');
   _id = new ObjectID(req.params.id);
 });

The request I'm passing is:

address/characters/:565dffa7463e4c60b1166f43

Thanks for any help on this.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 4535

Answers (1)

Md Khaled Hossain
Md Khaled Hossain

Reputation: 65

the request should be: address/characters/565dffa7463e4c60b1166f43

then the req.params.id becomes 565dffa7463e4c60b1166f43.

Upvotes: 1

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